Hommage à Eugène Delacroix

Details

Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904)
Hommage à Eugène Delacroix
signed 'Fantin' (lower right)
oil on canvas
11 ¾ x 11 in. (29.8 x 27.9 cm.)
Painted in 1864.

Provenance

Paul-Arthur Chéramy (1840-1912), Paris.
His sale; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 5-7 May 1908, lot 197.
M. Linol, Paris, acquired at the above sale.
with Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Geneva.
Private collection, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 27 December 1957.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 23 May 1989, lot 19.
Private collection, Japan.
Anonymous sale; Christie's East, New York, 30 October 2001, lot 105.
with Mark Murray Fine Paintings, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 4 October 2012, lot 12.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Literature

V. Fantin-Latour, Catalogue de l'œuvre complet de Fantin Latour, Paris, 1911, p. 33, no. 229.

Exhibited

New York, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, XIX Century Selections, 1988, n.p., no. 17, illustrated.
Japan, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Fantin-Latour, 23 September-8 November 1998, pp. 98-99, no. 7, illustrated.

Descriptif du lot

In 1880, the author Émile Zola wrote: ‘The canvases of M. Fantin-Latour do not assault your eyes, do not leap at you from the walls. They must be looked at for a length of time in order to penetrate them, and their conscientiousness, their simple truth – you take them in entirely and then you return’ (É. Zola, quoted in E. Lucie-Smith, Henri Fantin-Latour, New York, 1977, p. 37).

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